So… What a crazy ass world we live in! 🤦♂️ Any of you (I know @deebs@twtxt.net does) remember when Minecraft was a kids games for kids and created by this awesome guy and was open source (I believe)? 🤔 – That is until he sold it to Microsoft (who bought it for stupid amounts of money). What did Microsoft go and do with it? That’s right kids! 😅 They forced everyone old and new ever wanting to play the game to have a “Microsoft” account. 🤦♂️ – So my daughter has been wanting to play for some years now, I’ve said “No”. But she’s a bit older now, so its getting harder to say no. – So she now has an account. But in order to protect her real identity and her email email address (I’m her father, of course I’m going to set her up in this stupid ass digital world properly 🤣); I had to 1) buy a random domain name 2) delegate it to Cloudflare 3) Setup Email routing. All this so I could setup basically “junk” / “throwaway” email addresses and create an account with “basically garbage data”. 🤦♂️
This is very much a “Fuck you” to Microsoft moment 🤬 – And basically almost every small to medium to large organisation in the world. The whole “Know your Customer” (KYC) laws in many countries is beyond a joke. Every cyber attack, every brach, every leak. We have to get out of this bullshit of having to know “personal identifiable information” about “users”. There’s no need for it! 🤦♂️
@thecanine@twtxt.net I don’t know what riseup.net, but I have a feeling I basically did the same/similar thing by purchasing a domain name and setting up some random email routing to an actual email.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org at that time Minecraft was the most hyped game I was playing with this (open source).
https://www.platinumarts.net/platinum-arts-game-design/
It allows scripting so you can make full fledged custom games in it, but I only played with the map editor.
The engine was this one actually.
https://www.sandboxgamemaker.com/
I recommend an older version of it.
It should be in the repo of most distro, Mac in Win should be there too, great for kids wanting to create.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I do play when I don’t have anything to do (not too often) but get hooked on them until completed, mostly retro games via RetroArch (GBA and PSX), I even set up some sync scripts to play seamlessly on my PC, Android phone and raspberry pi.
@carsten@yarn.zn80.net Yeah, hundreds games with no space, I played the first Pokemon GB/GBA just to analyze it’s structure and movement system, not my type of game.
What I mostly play are platformers, story based games and air combat.
But my all time best is Crash Bandicoot 2. 😁
@carsten@yarn.zn80.net I like turn based that keep mechanics simple, I’m one that never touch the inventory in a fight and only waste time to organize it instead of exploring. I tried Shining Soul (GBA) recently and lost hours in putting in order my herbs and weapons.
@carsten@yarn.zn80.net it’s not actually turn based but it’s a pretty cool game, there’s also a sequel, Shining Soul 2.
@bender@twtxt.net Its actually even worse than that. Yes I went through a few extra steps, because I wanted to be in control of the “throw away email” as well. However, as it turns out, Microsoft basically force you to have a Microsoft Live Account, which (btw) gives you access to Teams, Outlook (and their own Email?!), Office, etc, etc. It’s not just an account for Minecraft 🤦♂️ – Then when you finally sign-in, you get to create your actual Mincecraft Username 🤦♂️